Introduction to Objects and Classes in Ruby

Introduction

Ruby is an object-oriented programming language. Object-oriented programming is centered around the idea of classes and objects. Let’s look at an example to understand what we mean by classes and objects.

Example

In our example, Car is a class, a user-defined type. It has the following two functions (plus many more):

• accelerate

• brake

In this class, my_car and your_camry are two different objects. They can brake, accelerate, and drive physically.